[plt-scheme] get caret position in text%

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 2 13:18:06 EDT 2008

You want to combine position-paragraph (which is below) with
get-start-position and get-end-position.

Robby

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com> wrote:
> I went through the docs, and couldn't find anything relating to the
> caret. I found the following methods containing 'paragraph':
>
> last-paragraph
> line-paragraph
> paragraph-end-line
> paragraph-end-position
> paragraph-start-line
> paragraph-start-position
> position-paragraph
> set-paragraph-alignment
> set-paragraph-margins
>
> of which only last-paragraph doesn't take an argument.
>
> martin
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> If you want the line and column according to the soft line breaks,
>> look at the methods with the name "line" in them and if you want the
>> line and column according only to where newlines are in the buffer,
>> look for methods with the name "paragraph".
>>
>> http://docs.plt-scheme.org/gui/text_.html
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How do I get the row and column the caret is currently at in a text% widget?
>>>
>>> martin
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